Ndị Ikpe 7
1 Jerub-Baal, onye bụkwa Gidiọn, na ndị agha ya niile biliri nʼisi ụtụtụ, maa ụlọ ikwu ha nʼisi iyi Harod. Ma ndị agha Midia mara ụlọ ikwu nke ha nʼakụkụ ugwu ebe ndị Izrel nọ, nʼime ndagwurugwu nke dị nso nʼugwu nta More.
And Jerubba‘al (he [is] Gideon) rises early, and all the people who [are] with him, and they encamp by the well of Harod, and the camp of Midian has been on the south of him, on the height of Moreh, in the valley.
2 Mgbe ahụ, Onyenwe anyị gwara Gidiọn okwu sị ya, “Lee, ndị ikom gị dị ọtụtụ. Agaghị m enyefe ndị Midia nʼaka ha, ma ọ bụghị otu a, Izrel ga-anya isi megide m, sị, ‘Ike aka m azọpụtala m.’
And YHWH says to Gideon, “The people who [are] with you [are] too many for My giving Midian into their hand, lest Israel beautify itself against Me, saying, My hand has given salvation to me;
3 Ugbu a, maa ọkwa nye ndị agha sị ha, ‘Onye ọbụla ụjọ na-atụ, ya hapụ ugwu Gilead laghachi azụ.’” Nʼihi nke a, iri puku ndị agha abụọ na abụọ laghachiri azụ nʼụlọ nke aka ha. Ma ndị agha dị puku iri nʼọnụọgụgụ fọdụrụ.
and now, please call in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever [is] afraid and trembling, let him turn back and go early from Mount Gilead”; and there return twenty-two thousand of the people, and ten thousand have been left.
4 Ma Onyenwe anyị gwara Gidiọn, sị ya, “Lee, ndị agha gị ka dị ọtụtụ. Duru ha gbada na mmiri ala, m ga-anwale ha ma webilatara gị ọnụọgụgụ ha nʼebe ahụ. Ọ bụrụ na m sị, ‘Onye nke a ga-eso gị jee,’ ọ ga-eje, ma ọ bụrụ na m sị, ‘Onye nke a agaghị eso gị jee,’ ọ gaghị eso jee.”
And YHWH says to Gideon, “The people [are] yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I refine him for you there; and it has been, he of whom I say to you, This goes with you—he goes with you; and any of whom I say to you, This does not go with you—he does not go.”
5 Ya mere, Gidiọn duuru ha bịa na mmiri ala ahụ. Nʼebe ahụ, Onyenwe anyị gwara ya okwu sị ya, “Kewapụ ndị ji ire ha rachara mmiri dịka nkịta, site na ndị ahụ gburu ikpere nʼala ịṅụ mmiri.”
And he brings the people down to the water, and YHWH says to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue as the dog laps—you set him apart; also everyone who bows on his knees to drink.”
6 Ọ bụ naanị narị ndị agha atọ ji ọbụ aka ha kwọlịte mmiri ha ṅụrụ. Ma ndị agha fọdụrụ gburu ikpere ha abụọ nʼala tinye ọnụ ha na mmiri, ṅụọ mmiri.
And the number of those lapping with their hand to their mouth is three hundred men, and all the rest of the people have bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7 Onyenwe anyị sịrị Gidiọn, “Ọ bụ narị ndị ikom atọ ndị a raara mmiri ka m ga-eji zọpụta gị, ma rarakwa ndị Midia nye gị nʼaka. Zilaga ndị fọdụrụ ka ha laa nʼụlọ nke aka ha.”
And YHWH says to Gideon, “I save you by the three hundred men who are lapping, and have given Midian into your hand, and all the people go, each to his place.”
8 Gidiọn zilagara ndị Izrel ndị a nʼụlọ ikwu ha ma hapụ naanị narị mmadụ atọ ndị napụtara ndị ahụ na-ala ala ngwongwo niile ha ji ebu agha, na opi ike. Ndị Midia mara ụlọ ikwu ha na ndagwurugwu, nʼebe na-adịghị anya site nʼebe Gidiọn nọ.
And the people take the provision in their hand, and their horns, and he has sent every man of Israel away, each to his tents; and he has kept hold on the three hundred men, and the camp of Midian has been by him at the lower part of the valley.
9 Nʼabalị ahụ, Onyenwe anyị gwara Gidiọn okwu sị ya, “Bilie, gaa lụso ọmụma ụlọ ikwu ahụ agha, nʼihi na ana m aga inyefe ha nʼaka gị.
And it comes to pass, on that night, that YHWH says to him, “Rise, go down into the camp, for I have given it into your hand;
10 Ma ọ bụrụ na ụjọ na-atụ gị ibuso ha agha, duru Pura onyeozi gị gaa nso nʼọmụma ụlọ ikwu ahụ,
and if you are afraid to go down—go down, you and your young man Phurah, to the camp,
11 ṅaa ntị, nụrụ ihe ha na-ekwu. Emesịa, ị ga-abụ onye a gbara ume ibu agha megide ọmụma ụlọ ikwu ahụ.” Ya mere, ya na Pura onyeozi ya gara nʼebe dị nso, nʼebe ndị nche ọmụma ụlọ ikwu ahụ nọ.
and you have heard what they speak, and afterward your hands are strengthened, and you have gone down against the camp.” And he goes down, he and his young man Phurah, to the extremity of the fifties who [are] in the camp;
12 Ma lee, usuu ndị agha Midia, na ndị Amalek, na ndị obodo ndị ọzọ ahụ si nʼọwụwa anyanwụ bịa jupụtara na ndagwurugwu ahụ dị ka igurube. Nʼezie, ịnyịnya kamel ha dị ọtụtụ, dịka aja dị nʼakụkụ oke osimiri.
and Midian, and Amalek, and all the sons of the east are lying in the valley, as the locust for multitude, and of their camels there is no number, as sand which [is] on the seashore for multitude.
13 Gidiọn rutere mgbe otu onye nọ na-akọrọ enyi ya banyere nrọ ọ rọrọ. Ọ na-asị, “Arọrọ m nrọ, ebe otu ogbe achịcha dị gburugburu, e ji ọka balị mee dabatara nʼime ụlọ ikwu ndị Midia. O ji ike dị egwu tie ụlọ ikwu a, nke mere na ụlọ ikwu a dajiri, kpuo ihu nʼala.”
And Gideon comes in, and behold, a man is recounting a dream to his companion, and says, “Behold, I have dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley-bread is turning itself over into the camp of Midian, and it comes to the tent, and strikes it, and it falls, and turns it upwards, and the tent has fallen.”
14 Onye ibe ya zara sị, “Nke a abụghị ihe ọzọ karịa mma agha Gidiọn nwa Joash, onye Izrel na-aga ịbịakwute anyị nʼebe a. Chineke enyefeela ndị Midia na ụlọ ikwu ya niile nʼaka ya.”
And his companion answers and says, “This is nothing except the sword of Gideon son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.”
15 Mgbe Gidiọn nụrụ nrọ ahụ, na nkọwa ya, ọ kpọrọ isiala kelee Chineke. Ọ laghachiri na ọmụma ụlọ ikwu ndị Izrel sị ha, “Bilienụ ọtọ! Nʼihi na Onyenwe anyị enyefeela unu ọmụma ụlọ ikwu ndị Midia nʼaka.”
And it comes to pass, when Gideon hears the narration of the dream and its interpretation, that he bows himself, and turns back to the camp of Israel, and says, “Rise, for YHWH has given the camp of Midian into your hand.”
16 O kewara ndị agha ya ụzọ atọ, nyekwa onye ọbụla nʼime ha opi ike, na ite aja nke iheọkụ dị nʼime ya.
And he divides the three hundred men [into] three detachments, and puts horns into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17 Ọ sịrị ha, “Unu na-ele m anya, meekwa ihe m na-eme. Mgbe anyị bịaruru nso na mpụta ebe ụlọ ikwu ahụ dị, meenụ ihe ọbụla unu hụrụ m mere.
And he says to them, “Look at me, and thus do; and behold, I am coming into the extremity of the camp—and it has been—as I do so you do;
18 Mgbe ọbụla mụ na ndị so m nʼazụ fụrụ opi ike anyị, unu niile ga-afụkwa opi ike unu nʼakụkụ ọbụla unu nọ, tie mkpu, sị, ‘Anyị dịnyere Onyenwe anyị, dịnyekwara Gidiọn.’”
and I have blown with a horn—I and all who [are] with me, and you have blown with horns, even you, around all the camp, and have said, For YHWH and for Gideon!”
19 Nʼabalị ahụ, mgbe etiti abalị ahụ gabigasịrị, Gidiọn na narị ndị agha ya gbeere egbere ruo na mpụta ebe ndị agha Midia mara ụlọ ikwu ha. Nʼoge a, ha ka gbanwere ndị agha na-eche nche.
And Gideon comes—and the hundred men who [are] with him—into the extremity of the camp, [at] the beginning of the middle watch (they had just posted watchmen), and they blow with horns—also dashing in pieces the pitchers which [are] in their hand;
20 Ụzọ ndị agha Gidiọn atọ ahụ fụrụ opi ike ha, tiwakwaa ite aja ha. Ha ji ọwaọkụ ndị ahụ nʼaka ekpe ha na opi ike ha gaje igbu nʼaka nri ha, ha tiri mkpu sị, “Mma agha Onyenwe anyị, na mma agha Gidiọn!”
and the three detachments blow with horns, and break the pitchers, and keep hold with their left hand on the lamps, and with their right hand on the horns to blow, and they cry, “The sword of YHWH and of Gideon!”
21 Onye ọbụla nʼime ha guzoro nʼebe o kwesiri ịnọ gburugburu ọmụma ụlọ ikwu ahụ. Ndị Midia niile malitere ịgba ọsọ, na-etikwa mkpu akwa mgbe ha na-agbalaga.
And they each stand in his place, around the camp, and all the camp runs, and they shout, and flee;
22 Mgbe ha fụrụ narị opi ike atọ ndị ahụ, Onyenwe anyị mere ka ndị ikom niile nọ nʼakụkụ niile nke ọmụma ụlọ ikwu ahụ tụgharịa were mma agha gburịta onwe ha. Ndị agha ahụ gbapụrụ ọsọ gbara gaa Bet-Shita nʼụzọ Zerera, gbarukwaa nke oke ala Ebel-Mehola, nke dị nso Tabat.
and the three hundred blow the horns, and YHWH sets the sword of each against his companion, even through all the camp; and the camp flees to Beth-Shittah, at Zererath, to the border of Abel-Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 A kpọpụtara ndị Izrel si Naftalị, na Asha na Manase niile ka ha pụta chụso ndị Midia ọsọ.
And the men of Israel are called from Naphtali, and from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and pursue after Midian.
24 Gidiọn ziri ozi nʼala ugwu ugwu Ifrem sị ha, “Pụtanụ gbochie ụzọ niile ndị Midia si agbafe. Cheenụ ọnụ mmiri Jọdan niile nche ruo na Bet-Bara.” Ya mere, a kpọpụtara ndị ikom niile nọ na Ifrem, bụ ndị gbochiri mmiri Jọdan ruo na Bet-Bara.
And Gideon has sent messengers into all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down to meet Midian, and capture the waters from them as far as Beth-Barah, and the Jordan”; and every man of Ephraim is called, and they capture the waters as far as Beth-Barah, and the Jordan,
25 Ha jidekwara ọchịagha ndị Midia abụọ, ndị aha ha bụ Oreb na Zeeb. Ha gburu Oreb nʼelu nkume nke na-aza aha ya ruo taa. E gbukwara Zeeb nʼebe a na-azọcha vaịnị. Ebe ahụ na-azakwa aha Zeeb ruo taa. Ha bipụrụ Oreb na Zeeb isi buru ha jekwuru Gidiọn nʼakụkụ osimiri Jọdan.
and they capture two of the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and slay Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they have slain Zeeb at the wine-vat of Zeeb, and they pursue into Midian; and they have brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
